Country Strong

[MacGuffin]

Trailer here.

Release Date: December 22nd, 2010 (limited); January 7th, 2011 (wide) 

Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund, Leighton Meester, Marshall Chapman
 
Directed by: Shana Feste 

Premise: Soon after a rising young singer-songwriter gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star, the pair embarks on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager and featuring a beauty-queen-turned-singer. Between concerts, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.

[I Love a Magician]

no one on this message board will see this movie

[Pas]

Hopefully.

[Pedro]

I would not pay money to see this, but color me interested.  It looks quite bad, but as someone who's just a little bit obsessed with pop country music, I would probably enjoy mocking it when it airs on VH1. 

[picolas]

this trailer was actually booed in my theatre.

[Pwaybloe]

I saw this last night, and it was a truly frustrating experience. 

The movie had some really interesting characters (though at times cliched), but the movie just didn't know what to do with them.  At times, there were some good scenes with the characters in a semi-ad libbed conversation, but then they immediately throw in a scene right out of a CW teenage melodrama.  Incredibly inconsistent. The director should have just left the characters alone instead of trying to push a plot forward. 

There is just not enough good parts to constitute seeing this movie, and I ALWAYS stay optimistic while watching.  There was too much frustration seeing the movie making wrong turns over and over again.